Of course, that all includes over 70,000 brands, many of which have been positioned to appear to be competing (For example the top 7 of the top 10 brands of bottled water all belong to Nestle.) Are you afraid yet? Perhaps I could tell about of Pepsi calling its previous company attorney and asking for a little help with a situation in Chili. The attorney was none other that Richard M Nixon. The situation resulting the
deployment the US Navy and political manipulation by the CIA. Or Pepsi making heroin in Vietnam which it sold to the CIA who sold it in the US to pay for their operations in Vietnam. Or the Coca Cola company being the only company in the US that is allowed to import coca leaves (the source of cocaine) into the US. Or Coke paying local malitia groups to assassinate union leaders in Colombia. Or that Walmart costs the American taxpayers about $500,000 per store per year, since it doesn’t pay is employees enough to buy health care, so they get it from the State. This is in addition to the subsides that Wal-Mart demands before opening a new store. In my town, the city had to cough up a cool $350,000 in 1988 dollars. ($601,300 today) Or that Disney bribed its workers in one of Chinese toy plants 3 days pay if they wouldn’t tell government inspectors that their living conditions and pay were not up to Chincom minimal standards. Disney made 1.3 billion dollars on 8.6 billion dollars in sales, by the way. The workers in that plant made $0.28 an hour on a 12 hr day, which is below Chinese minimum wage. I could go on and on. But I think you get the idea. Mega-corporations will do whatever the hell they want. And you will pay. And the politicians will pay them to do it. If anyone doubts anything that I said, by all means, look it up. I’m not wrong on any of it. And I know what I am going to do about it. Do you?